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Rauhmel Fox, AFA™ GRAD

“Be an example to your men [and women], in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don’t in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.” --Field Marshall, Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox, Contrails, Cadet Handbook, United States Air Force Academy

"Excellence at the United States Air Force Academy is intensely definitive and exceedingly personal, and this is the nausea in the pit of your stomach and in your throat, this is the fear--that you lack character, that you have no honor, that you will fail at proving yourself courageously faithful to duty beyond self." --Rauhmel Fox, AFA™ GRAD, CS-30, CS-33, Prep School (prior-enlisted). Click here to listen to my personal quote.